"Crouching Tiger" and the Foreign Language Films of 2000
Monday, May 17, 2021 at 10:00PM In preparation for the next Smackdown Team Experience is traveling back to 2000.
Juliette Binoche and Jack Valenti announcing Best Foreign Language Film.
Coming into the 73rd Academy Awards, the results of the Foreign Language Film category must have felt like the biggest lock of the night (this writer can only assume based on hindsight since he was only a five-year old bébé at the time). Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was the perfect storm when it hit American audiences. The film came from an established filmmaker, Ang Lee, who had made several critical and commercial hits in English and otherwise, the storytelling was tailored to better suit Western sensibilities, it featured international stars known to the English-speaking film market, it received rave reviews and enormous box office returns, and it was both partially funded and widely distributed by a major American studio...